I recently fin­ished read­ing this great book called Ayn Rand and Busi­ness. It was a pretty good read, and I came away with sev­eral take­aways and action steps. A great quote from Ayn Rand that she wrote in her 35th anniver­sary edi­tion of Atlas Shrugged is:

My phi­los­o­phy, in essence, is the con­cept of a man as a heroic being, with his own hap­pi­ness as the moral pur­pose of his life, with pro­duc­tive achieve­ment as his noblest activ­ity, and rea­son as his only absolute.”

Per­son­ally, I find this to be very pow­er­ful, and very moti­vat­ing. What is life with­out pur­pose? How can you get some­where with­out know­ing where you are going? Why are you doing what you are doing?

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In this post I want to talk to you about how to stay on track for 2009, and how to make sure you keep to your goals, and accom­plish that which you desire.

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I am going to share with you some of the major insights and take­aways I got from read­ing the book “The Design­ful Com­pany”.  I am going to take it one step fur­ther, and show you how you can use this infor­ma­tion today on your blog or small busi­ness to start get­ting mas­sive results.

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If you are going to be blog­ging you will need to have some essen­tial soft­ware. You can always pay for won­der­ful soft­ware, but the goal of this arti­cle is to pro­vide free alter­na­tives, and open source when pos­si­ble.  The point here is to give you every­thing you need to be up and online with the least hassle.

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When your writ­ing an arti­cle on your blog, and link­ing within your site (which you should!) you may start get­ting ping­backs from your own blog. Obvi­ously this is trash, and needs to either be mod­er­ated or deleted. One of my clients who is in my blog build­ing course was get­ting tired of his blog ping­ing back him­self, and I fig­ured oth­ers out there are hav­ing the same prob­lem. So here it is, your sim­ple 1 click solu­tion. Enjoy!

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